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Monday, July 4, 2016

Bangladesh: ISIS pays Italy back for role in Libya - debkaFile

by debkaFile

Inside Libya, the fighting continues unresolved for lack of air support.
The US, Italy, France and the UK cannot agree on which of them will
supply air cover for the ground forces battling for Sirte and which will
assume command.

The Islamic State struck the West again on June 1, when it activated a
local Bangladeshi cell for a murderous, hostage-taking attack on the
Artisan Bakery and O’Kitchen Restaurant, a favorite haunt of foreign
visitors near the diplomatic zone of Dakha, the capital. A large
contingent of Italian businessmen dining there that night was
specifically targeted by ISIS in revenge for the Rome government’s
military intervention in the campaign to eject the Islamists from Libya.debkafile
intelligence and counter terror sources note that the long Islamist arm
reached into the Indian subcontinent, 7,000km away, to settle its score
with Italy, rather than sending its killers by the obvious route from
the ISIS capital Sirte in Libya to Italy across 1,200km of Mediterranean
Sea. This tactic saved them the risk of running the gauntlet of the
Italian Navy boats which are fanned out across the Sidra Gulf to staunch
the flow of migrants (an important source of income for ISIS) and
intercept terrorists heading for attack in Europe.
Bangladesh is the world’s second largest manufacturing center after
China for the major Western fashion houses, netting each year 26.5
Billion USD, 75 pc of its foreign currency earnings. Among the important
Italian fashion houses manufacturing in Bangladesh are Prada, Milan,
and Benetton.
Italian special operations contingents are the largest Western force
operating on several fronts in Libya since early January. They are
fighting to capture the key port town of Sirte together with British and
US special forces and alongside local Libyan forces.
On April 29, debkafile
reported: “ISIS fighters smashed a force of Italian and British Special
Ops troops on Wednesday, April 27 in the first battle of its kind in
Libya. This battle will result in the delay of the planned Western
invasion of Libya, as the encounter proved that European forces are not
ready for this kind of guerilla warfare. The sources also said the
planners of the invasion were surprised by the high combat skills of the
ISIS fighters.”
The Bangladesh attack was therefore not the first contretemps suffered by Italy in its fight on Islamist terror.
Inside Libya, the fighting continues unresolved for lack of air support.
The US, Italy, France and the UK cannot agree on which of them will
supply air cover for the ground forces battling for Sirte and which will
assume command.
In early June, overall command of the campaign was given to NATO. That
decision did not break the allied impasse either, because its members
remained at loggerheads over respective air force contributions,
provision of the logistic intelligence required for aerial operations
and, lastly, funding.
Due to insufficient air cover, western and Libyan special forces are
stuck in the parts of Sirte they have captured, but cannot advance
towards the city’s center or root out the ISIS fighters.
The fact that ISIS was able to operate a terror cell in far-away
Bangladesh to strike a counterblow in the battle in Northern Africa,
testified to the global scope of the terror organization’s command and
communication reach.
Just like the November 2015 Paris attacks, the terrorists were in
telephone contact with their masters in the Middle East, once in a while
sending pictures of the victims they murdered inside the restaurant.
In the attack, the terrorists killed 9 Italian businessmen, 7 Japanese
businessmen, one US citizen, 3 local citizens, and one Indian.
The hostages were executed by beheading with machetes.
The counter terrorism sources report that, just as in the terror attacks
in Brussels, Paris and Istanbul, the attackers in Dhaka were previously
known to local security and intelligence agencies, at least five of the
seven terrorists were known to the Bangladesh security agencies, who
claimed they were unable to stop them.debkaFileSource: http://www.debka.com/article/25521/Bangladesh-ISIS-pays-Italy-back-for-role-in-Libya Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.